Handle and supporting structure for hand stamps



Sept. 5, 1950 DELORE 2,521,286

HANDLE AND SUPPORTING STRUCTURE FOR HAND STAMPS Filed Aug. 13, 1946 Patented Sept. 5, 1950 OFFICE HANDLE AND SUPPORTING STRUCTURE FOR HAND STAMPS Paul Gabriel Delore, San Francisco, Calif.

Application August 13, 1946, Serial No. 690,30?

1 Claim. 1

The invention relates to improvement for handle and supporting structure for hand stamps, and the objects of the improvements are: first, to provide hand stamps to stand upright by themselves on ink stamp pads and desks; second, to afford an easier and quicker use of hand stamps.

For a clerk whose assigned job is to turn hundreds of items (bills or other) per hour with his left hand, and at the same time to turn with his right hand hundreds of pages of registers and to sort hundreds of items per hour by checking and stamping them on these pages with the same right hand, no movement is more boring and requires more time than the gesture consisting in laying horizontally every second the hand stamp on ones desk to turn the pages with the right hand, then to grasp again the hand stamp with the same hand, to raise the hand stamp perpendicularly again, especially when these hand stamps are to be placed every time on an ink stamp pad for being imbibed. As a matter of fact the clerk who acts this way must every time take a look at the hand stamp to locate it be fore getting a hold of it. It would be much better if, after checking and stamping he could put the hand stamp right back perpendicularly again on the ink pad. Thus the hand stamp would be easily located, already imbibed, ready to work, useless movements would be avoided and time saved. Moreover speed and accuracy of checking and stamping would be increased.

But to get a hand stamp upright by itself on an ink stamp pad or on a desk, rigid squares must be affixed at its base. Now, if such square is supplemented in this manner, each time the hand stamp would be put on an ink stamp pad, this square would. be smeared with ink and then would soil the register to be stamped.

The present device, owing to a moving fixture affixed to the hand stamp, permits it to stand upright by itself even on an ink stamp pad or desk, and allows this hand stamp to be used immediately afterwards for stamping and checking items on registers without spoiling their pages with the inky marking of this moving fixture.

The descriptions of the figures are as follows:

Figure l is a perspective view of the hand stamp in operating position.

Figure 2 is a similar perspective view of the hand stamp in its inking position.

Figure 3 is a front elevation of the stamp showing the split handle and spring.

Figure 4 is a side elevation.

AA are 2 moving handle-bars shaped as a V, made out of wood, metal or colored plastic transparent or not, and together connected to S with clamps BB, screws FF and hinge GG.

An inside spring C keeps moving handle-bars AA wide open at stand-still position, thus releasing TT and permitting parts ZZ to lie on ink stamp pads or desks.

TT are extending branches connected with handle bars AA and support ZZ. TT can be curved or not. The implement being laid perpendicularly either on ink stamp pads or desks, the clerk grasps it with his right hand on upper part of AA (Fig. 2), thus compelling AA to come close together as on Fig. 1. In the meantime TT is lifting up ZZ. Then S is put in working position for stamping. After stamping, the implement is laid again on ink stamp pads or desks, and the clerk, releasing AA brings automatically down, due to spring in C, the branches TT thus replacing ZZ in contact either with ink stamp pads or desks.

In order that handle-bars AA (Figs. 1, 2, 4) may come in close contact, AA are flat shaped inside on DD and round shaped just outwardly on EE". Besides, their parts at and (12 (Figs. 1, 4) are blade-like shaped from S up to junction point of TT. Parts ZZ may be replaced either by two half rectangles, two half squares or two half-circ1es, surrounding part S.

It is specified that the inside part of AA may be carved out at junction points of spring C then allowing this spring C to enter into the carved space, thus allowing AA to come in close contact.

TT may be screwed or driven into AA. Parts al and a2 are rounded off at their bases l-ll-I (see Fig. 2 and Fig. 4) so that moving handle bars AA might move one against the other,

Fig. 5 shows side view of stamp with inside spring C.

In short, this new device permits the part 8 of the hand stamp: (l) to stand upright by itself on separate ink stamp pads and desks owing to the new extended branches TT and ZZ, (2) to be used for stamping registers without any contact on the registers of these extended branches TT and ZZ due to the fact that the handle bars AA, once gripped by the clerks hand automatically operate these extended branches TT and ZZ due to the compression or extension of the spring C affixed to inner part AA.

I claim:

A vertically disposed self supporting hand stamp comprising a printing base member with printing indicia on the bottom thereof, a handle divided vertically into two symmetrical parts with each part attached to the top of said base printing member by hinge means, spring means disposed between the two symmetrical parts to actuate the said parts outwardly, and supporting members rigidly attached to each of the symmetrical parts of the handle, each supporting member having a portion extending outwardly and downwardly and into the plane of 10 Number the printing surface when the handle portions are separated whereby the supporting members may be moved out of the plane of the printing surface when the handle portions are moved together.

PAUL GABRIEL DELORE.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Name Date 1,309,599 Seaboldt July 8, 1919 1,564,517 Brolin Dec. 8, 1925 1,694,688 Pandolfo Dec. 11, 1928 

